A visitor photographs the White House Workplace display on April 24 at the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, which will be dedicated today. The library and museum contains 70 million paper records, 43,000 artifacts and 4 million digital photographs. Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images

Visitors look at statues of former presidents George H.W. Bush, left, and son George W. Bush. The 14,000-square-foot museum includes exhibits from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the Florida vote recount and other historic events. Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images